Protecting device for collars.



S. L. SIMPSON.

. PROTECTING DEV-ICE F03. OOLLARS.

A'PYLIOATIOH PILEDJULY a, 1910. RENEWED AUG. 9, 1911.

' Pafinted Oct. 31,1911. 7 v

NITED STATMENT oFmcE.

SELIDEN L. smrson, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF'ONE-HALF 'ro HARLEY J;

\ BEST, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN. v

PROTECTING DEVICE,EOB, COLL ABS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Application filed Jul -8 1910, Serial No. 571,010? Renewed August 9, 1911. Serial No. 643,216.

To allwhom it concern:

Be it known that I, SELDEN L. SIMPsoN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Protecting Devices for Collars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in coverings for collars and the object in view is to produce a simple device of this nature made preferably-of a thin sheet of rubber adapted to fit over the corners of a collar and to protect the same from perspiration, soil, etc. r

The invention comprises a simple device of this nature having various details of arrangements which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

I illustrate my invention in the aocom panying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a collar showing my protecting device as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the inner face of the collar showing how the flap extends over' the folded edge of the collar. Fig. 3 is a plan view of thedownwardly turned flap of a collar, showing the pockets in which the corners of the collar engage, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates an ordinary turn-down collar to which style of collar my covering is especially ada ted. The covering, designated by letter is made preferably of a thin sheet of rubber having pockets C formed adjacent to its ends. Said sheet of rubber is referably of a slightly less length than the ength of the collar so that, when the device is stretched so as to receive the ends of the turn-down lower marginal edge of the turn-down parts I of the collar and upon the rear face thereof .and below the edge of the band of the collar. The other ribbed edge will be positioned ad jacent to the inner face of the band and adapted to come in contact with the band of the shirt.

In order to hold down the front parts of v the cover, unseen hooks, designated by letter E,"are provided adapted to engage the collar in the manner shown in the drawings.

In applying the device, the corners of the turn-down portion of the collar are slipped in the pockets of the cover, the latter being stretched in order to allow the corners to be Patented Oct. 31,1911.

thusengaging the pockets. This stretching the turn-down portion of the collar while the upper portion will form a flap K extending down between the innerface of the band of the collar and the collar band-of a shirt. By the provision of a cover as shown and described, it will be'noted that a simple and eflicient means is afforded whereby collars may be protected from soil, perspiration, etc., the covering being so constructed that it may be readily applied to various forms of turn-down C0 larsfi What I claim to be new is 1.. A covering for collars comprisin a sheet of flexible material having poc ets formed therein and' adaptedto receive the ends of the turned down port-ion of 'a collar, one of the longitudinal edges of said sheet extending under the lower marginal edge of the turned down portion ofthe collar, and the upper edge of the sheet extending over the folded edge of the latter.

2. A covering for collars comprising a sheet of flexible material having pockets formed therein and adapted to receive the ends of the turned down portion of a collar, one of the longitudinal edges of said sheet extending under the lower marginal edge of the turned down portion of the collar, the

marginal edge of the pocket and sheet having a reinforcing rib.

SELDEN L. SIMPSON.

Witnesses:

J. Les, 1 O. A. SCHAFFER. 

